World’s most innovative thinkers coming to Australia

Retail, the media, airlines, telecommunications, even governments globally are all in the throes of fundamental change in response to disruption. Is it a threat to your industry or profession, a problem to be managed – or an opportunity to be seized?

Australia’s business sector has a chance to understand disruption, to innovate in response, or take the initiative and be a disruptor. Learn from the who’s who of global thinkers and innovators at the 6th Creative Innovation 2016 Asia Pacific Global event – Ci2016, 7-9 November 2016 at Sofitel Melbourne On Collins.

Ci2016 is about not only managing the dramatic changes being wrought by new business models associated with the internet, technology and globalisation, but learning from these changes and seeing opportunities.

Disruption and the rise of exponential technologies is undoubtedly the greatest commercial and cultural threat all organisations will face over the next five years. With an estimated 47% of jobs to be lost due to new technologies this event will address key issues, challenges and opportunities around the future of work and new industries.

The changes driven by digital technology don’t discriminate. Virtually every business and institution faces competitive threats from new, nimble competitors not hampered by past practice or thinking. Yet, once understood, the threat of disruptive change from outside can be turned to a huge competitive advantage with the opportunities that flow from that understanding.

The line-up of speakers is:

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro–Japan: Director Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University

Martin Ford–USA: Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, Futurist and Speaker; expert on the robot revolution, AI, job automation and the impact of accelerating technology on the economy and society

Dr Daniel Kraft–US: Physician-scientist, inventor and innovator; Faculty Chair for the Medicine and Exponential Medicine program at Singularity University, exploring the impact and potential of rapidly developing technologies as applied to health and medicine

Professor Stephen Heppell–UK: Chair Learning Innovation Universidad Camilo José Cela Madrid; Chair in New Media Environments Bournemouth University; one of the most influential academics in the field of technology and education globally